eCARTO News June 2021

eCARTO News captures the latest cartographic news and developments from around the world. If you have any general cartography items of interest then please email them to David Fraser, editor of eCARTO News.

Country by Country

• Hungarian Geographer Creates First Ever Mars Atlas – hungarytoday.hu
• ‘Look Around’ vehicles begin mapping the Czech Republic – ilounge.com
• Mapping the invisible atmospheric ‘rivers’ that bring East Africa’s rain – climatechangenews.com
• New Land Subsidence Map Reveals the Netherlands’ (In)Stability – gim-international.com
• Japanese website maps neighbourhoods that have noisy children – theguardian.com
• Beautiful countryside makes beautiful maps : The Alps in Austria – agslibraryblog.wordpress.com
• Mapping Armenia’s Edible Landscape, One Wild Bilberry Bush at a Time – smithsonianmag.com
• What India’s New Digital Soil Map Can Do for the Country – science.thewire.in
• Mapping floods in Bangladesh caused by Cyclone Amphan to support humanitarian response – preventionweb.net
• Croatia sits on many geological faults, not all active, southern Dalmatia highest risk – croatiaweek.com
• See a 4,000-Year-Old 3D Map of France – hyperallergic.com
• Iran to allocate some $240,000 for Great Wall of Gorgan restoration – tehrantimes.com
• Redesigned Apple Maps Expanding to Spain and Portugal Today, Italy and Australia Later This Year – macrumors.com
• Latvia Map and Satellite Image – geology.com
• North Macedonia – mapcarta.com
• 6,000 WWII-era bomb craters mapped in Poland – livescience.com
• How Uruguay is advancing its National Adaptation Plan across cities through adaptive solutions and education – preventionweb.net
• Mapping an Ecuadorian Research Base in Antarctica with a Drone – commercialuavnews.com
• Robinson Crusoe Island Captured by Landsat 8 Satellite – scitechdaily.com
• Ordnance Survey launches OS Maps for Australia – spatialsource.com.au
• Mexican duo creates first cartography with all the architectural heritage of Mexico city – designboom.com

Language

• Languages of East Timor – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
• Modern Distribution of Celtic Languages In The 21st Century – brilliantmaps.com
• US State Names by Language of Derivation – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
• Map Of The Tribes Of Arabia – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com

Please explain?

• The Definitive Guide to SLAM & Mobile Mapping – gim-international.com
• Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation – jcblibrary.org
• The next ‘deep fake’ images: Public lands, natural disasters – eenews.net
• A disaster and a discovery – thehindu.com
• Map data is shockingly easy to fake, from ‘Pokémon Go’ to satellite images – fastcompany.com
• Making Manned Aerial Mapping Accessible – amerisurv.com
• The New Era In Mapping: Maps For Machines By Machines – news.crunchbase.com

Cartographic Resources

• Afrimapr – afrimapr.github.io
• International Journal of Cartography, Volume 7, Issue 2 (2021) – tandfonline.com
• Modern Map Reading Skills – getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
• Mapping Self in Society – news.vanderbilt.edu
• Journal of Map & Geography Libraries – tandfonline.com

Cartographic Themes

• La distancia hasta el centro de salud más cercano en el mundo – elordenmundial.com
• Shaping the Mountains of the Future – gim-international.com
• When Rivers are Borders – earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Maps on Display

• Larissa Fassler’s cartography at the Currier Museum describes socioeconomic disparities in Manchester – theartblog.org

Marine Cartography

• Preserving the future of our oceans through underwater mapping – cnet.com
• Mapping quest edges past 20% of global ocean floor – bbc.com
• Trio in plan to accelerate seabed mapping – shipinsight.com
• Cartographers Say The World Now Has Five Oceans, Not Four – deeperblue.com
• Mapping the Secrets of the Earth’s Seabed – bloomberg.com

Weather, Climate and the Cosmos

• Weather and climate – scottduncanwx.com
• Cosmic cartographers map nearby universe revealing the diversity of star-forming galaxies – sciencedaily.com

Cartography reporting

• Woven Alpha Automated Mapping Platform and Mitsubishi Fuso Collaborate on Latest HD Mapping Technology for Advanced Driver – miragenews.com

Odd Spot

• Barsetshire map – https://trollopesociety.org/product/barsetshire-map/
• The World’s Most Mildly Infuriating Map Legend – businessfibre.co.uk
• The deepest hole we have ever dug – bbc.com
• Your brain goes all the way to 11 – bicyclenetwork.com.au
• ORAU hosts Mythical Cartography course for educators – knoxnews.com

Kindred

• How Augmented Reality can help improve the indoor mapping experience – auganix.org
• Polynesian migration theories challenged by new research – auckland.ac.nz
• Cartography – thedailystar.net

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